Research

Current Projects

• System Support for Green Homes

Recent Projects

• Llama - The goal of Llama is to better understand battery usage patterns of mobile devices and adapt applications based on observed user behavior.
  • Collaborators - Nilanjan Banerjee, Cheryl Chang-Yit, Mark Corner, Maria Kazandjieva, Ahmad Rahmati, Denitsa Tilkidjieva, Nitin Ramamurthy, Lin Zhong
  • Publications
    • S. Rollins, J.D. Porten, K. Brisbin, and C. Chang-Yit, "A Battery-Aware Algorithm for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications", Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer (Online First), December 2010.
    • S. Rollins and C. Chang-Yit, "A Battery-Aware Algorithm for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications", in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom '08), Orlando, FL, November, 2008.
    • N. Banerjee, A. Rahmati, M.D. Corner, S. Rollins, and L. Zhong, "Users and Batteries: Interactions and Adaptive Energy Management in Mobile Systems", in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 07), Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2007.
• Hierarchical Power Management (HPM) - The HPM project investigates the use of tiered software and hardware to support always-on, battery-efficient operation of mobile devices.
• Collaborators - Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark Corner, Deepak Ganesan, Jacob Sorber
• Publications
  • N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins, and D. Ganesan, "Triage: Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in a Microserver", in Proceedings of The Fifth International ACM/USENIX Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '07), Puerto Rico, June, 2007.
  • J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. Corner, and S. Rollins, "Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices", in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 05), Seattle, WA, USA, June, 2005.

Funding

• S. Rollins, N. Banerjee, "CSR:Small:Collaborative Research: System Support for Green Homes", National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-1115798, $400,000 (total award), 8/1/11-7/31/14.

• S. Rollins, "RUI/CSR-PDOS:Cooperative Prefetching for Mobile Devices" National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-0509095, $166,882, 6/15/05-5/31/08.

• P. Shenoy, D. Ganesan, M. Corner, S. Rollins, S. Kaplan, "MRI: Acquisition of a Laboratory Testbed for Networked Embedded Systems and Sensor Research", National Science Foundation (NSF) CNS-0520729, $300,000, 9/1/05-8/31/08.

• M. Corner, B. Levine, S. Kaplan, S. Rollins, N. Howe, R. Weiss, "Collaborative Research: A Five-College Partnership for Information Assurance Education" National Science Foundation (NSF) DUE-0416481, $11,527 (Mt Holyoke award), 9/1/04-8/31/06.